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Before our eyes, the Arctic is changing from an impenetrable wasteland into an oceanic crossroads.
- quasimojo 18y agowhat gibberish. the arctic is not a "wasteland". nor is the desert. these are simply environments not suited to unaided human habitation. the polar bears don't think its a wasteland. all that fresh water locked up as ice is what is keeping manhattan from becoming marineworld.
- whacked_new 18y agoWow, I tend to think an ice-free Arctic means something has gone really wrong. So wrong that it wouldn't be the time to think about the shifting geopolitical power... 2013 eh?
- eru 18y agoIce-free only in summer.